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The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of working from home. While working from home seems appealing to avoid commutes, the document argues it is actually inefficient and impossible. Distractions from household chores and lack of separation between work and home life can negatively impact productivity and psychological well-being. Having a separate work space outside the home allows one to focus while working and relax at home, improving life balance. Work also provides important social and community benefits that are missing when working in isolation at home.

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The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of working from home. While working from home seems appealing to avoid commutes, the document argues it is actually inefficient and impossible. Distractions from household chores and lack of separation between work and home life can negatively impact productivity and psychological well-being. Having a separate work space outside the home allows one to focus while working and relax at home, improving life balance. Work also provides important social and community benefits that are missing when working in isolation at home.

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GROUP: ÔN THI APTIS

APTIS READING PRACTICE TEST


List of headings
A. A daily grind
B. Workplace fulfills a fundamental need
C. High likelihood of less willpower to work
D. Boost the confidence of the worker
E. Less distraction and higher commitment
F. A tough combination
G. Home-working is on the ball
1. According to a recent survey, working from home is an idea whose
time has come. Apparently, we are all queuing up to not get the
bus, but to carry our favourite coffee mug upstairs and cosy up with
the laptop. The overwhelming reason given by those questioned was
that they could be much, much more efficient if they worked from
home. I can see the obvious advantages but, believe me, working
from home is not just inefficient, it is impossible.
2. You may have a dedicated study in which you can barricade
yourself against the general mayhem that is family life, but many
people do not. The other awkward truth about home-working is that
if, like me, you suffer from the least defect of motivation, you are
placing yourself in the grip of mental agony. First there are the
households chores you really should do, and then there’s that
fascinating radio programme …
3. When I gave up and found a cheap office-share with other self-
employees my life improved a hundredfold. I discovered that a
distinct break between work and home was crucial for psychological
health. When I was at work, I could focus on my task; once I was at
home, I could devote myself to the domestic routine.
4. Work is a gateway to a social network, to friends, to a community. In
a world of increased individualism and globalisation, many of us are
seeking a sense of belonging somewhere or to someone. On a
personal level, the search for belonging takes people to internet

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chat rooms and clubs, to coffee shops-and to work. Work seems to


offer a ready-made community. Phychologically speaking, it satisfies
our basic instinct to relate to other individuals, and to society.
5. I realized that there is something profoundly depressing about
working at home. It’s as if you haven’t got a proper job. Most of us
gain self-esteem from our identity as a working person, but there can
be no such benefit if the work takes place in social isolation. Indeed,
working for the majority is quite clearly not the soul-destroying prison
it is sometimes perceived to be.
6. However, there are problems where the work culture involves long
hours, and people will always need to strike the right balance
between work and home. Behind the fanfare surrounding a new
report on work-life balance lies a truth about the contradictions we
all face in juggling home and the workplace. One of the reasons
why balancing and «life» is so difficult is that work, for many of us, is
so appealing.

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ĐÁP ÁN
1-G, 2-C, 3-E, 4-B, 5-D, 6-F

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